Infopacket: 10 Things Kids Can Do to Help the EarthPerfect for Earth Month, this informative 10-page curriculum packet includes a “How a Bottle Gets Recycled” infographic, 10 unique ideas for how kids can make a difference, and an extensive resource list to help continue the lessons for both students and kids at home. Download it, print it, pin it, share it!

Here is today's list of NEW Kindle freebies! Some of the free Kindle books from previous days are STILL FREE - so be sure to check those out too! To easily see all the past posts with FREE Kindle books, click here. [Books are free at the time they are posted.]

Speech Class for Teens: 28 Speech Class Lessons Plus Handouts and Forms Who needs this book?-Middle & high school English teachers who want a once-a-week, year-long speech class-Speech teachers looking to add some variety to their speech classes-Home school co-ops wanting to offer a speech class-After school enrichment programs-Independent instructors offering speech classes-And, of course, the students taking the class!

Note: The print version is suggested for student books. However, there are links to assignment forms to download and print.

Very Active Verbs (A Grammar Primer for Kids)Explaining parts of speech to a child can be confusing and difficult. Emily Taylor breaks down the important aspects of verbs in language that is easy and understandable for small children using pictures, questions, and mini-exercises at the end of the book. This book will help parents explain these concepts to their children and improve their language arts skills.

Sentences, Subjects, and Predicates! (A Grammar Primer for Kids!)Explaining parts of speech to a child can be confusing and difficult. Emily Taylor breaks down the important aspects of verbs in language that is easy and understandable for small children using pictures, questions, and mini-exercises at the end of the book. This book will help parents explain these concepts to their children and improve their language arts skills.

Nouns, Nouns, Nouns (A Grammar Primer for Kids)Explaining parts of speech to a child can be confusing and difficult. Emily Taylor breaks down the important aspects of nouns in language that is easy and understandable for small children using pictures, questions, and mini-exercises at the end of the book. This book will help parents explain these concepts to their children and improve their language arts skills.

CoyotesIn this book you will find 15 amazing animal facts accompanied by high quality photos! At the end of this book you will also discover 5 quiz questions for testing your knowledge. This book is perfect for a "read-along" learning experience with your child. Grab your copy today!

Leopards In this book you will find 15 amazing animal facts accompanied by high quality photos! At the end of this book you will also discover 5 quiz questions for testing your knowledge. This book is perfect for a "read-along" learning experience with your child. Grab your copy today!

Panda BearsIn this book you will find 15 amazing animal facts! Also: make sure you pay attention when you're reading because you will be tested with 5 tricky questions at the end of the book! This book is perfect for a "read-along" learning experience with your child. Grab your copy today!

Mission: Explore Food (Mission Explore) It's time to explore! 159 food missions that dare you to (re)discover our world. Become a food expert and guerrilla explorer with missions and recipes that experiment with all things food. Open this daring alternative cookbook to uncover tasty, revolting and seemingly random challenges across six chapters. Age Level: 9 - 12 | Grade Level: 4 - 7

Mission:Explore RSPB Big Wild Sleepout Discover the secret world on your doorstep by sleeping in the great outdoors! As part of the RSPB’s Big Wild Sleepout, put up a tent in your garden, build a make-shift shelter or simply (if you’re brave enough) sleep under the stars over the weekend of 9, 10 and 11th August 2013. Your mission is to sleep out in nature’s home, listen to night sounds, feel the night air on your face and to marvel at the night sky.Inside Mission:Explore RSPB Big Wild Sleepout, you will find 30 missions that will take you on an exciting sleepout journey. Your challenge is to complete and record as many missions as you can, and then visit the RSPB profile on the Mission:Explore website for even more missions of discovery. It's time to explore!

Mission:Explore WaterDear Explorer, This book will change the way you think about water forever. Do not go any further if you are afraid of going on adventures or trying new things. There is also a 99.999% certainty that you will get wet.Inside Mission:Explore Water you will find 51 water-related missions. Your challenge is to complete and record each of them as best you can. By the time you have finished Mission:Explore Water you will be an extreme explorer, guerrilla geographer and about 60% water.It's time to explore...

Mission:Explore Water teacher notes Dear Educator,This book will change the way your students think about water forever. Do not go any further if you are afraid of going on adventures or trying new things. There is also a 99.999% certainty that you will get wet. Inside Mission:Explore Water you will find 51 water-related missions. Your student's challenge is to complete and record each of them as best you can. By the time you have finished Mission:Explore Water they (and you) will be an extreme explorer, guerrilla geographer and about 60% water.It's time to explore...

Mission:Explore John Muir These missions will help you follow in the footsteps of nature conservation’s father figure - John Muir. They are for everyone who dares to explore the world with Muir’s spirit of adventure and curiosity.Inside ‘Mission:Explore John Muir’ you’ll find 20 Muir-related missions, and some of Muir’s words from over 100 years ago. Your challenge is to complete and record as many missions as you can.

More Than Things: A Children's Book about Gifts Join Brother as he waits anxiously for his approaching birthday. He wants SO many things... until he has a very strange dream. Brother learns a valuable lesson, and has a birthday to remember.

This book was written for preschool and elementary aged children. It will initiate thought and conversation about how people are more important than the things they give us.

It is playfully illustrated by Kati Burns (still a kid herself).

Included in the ebook is a link for free printables: Thank you notes for your child to use as they show their appreciation for the gifts they receive.

This is the third book in a series of adventures with Brother and Sis. The first is titled, "Room to Play: A Children's Book about Decluttering,” and the second is titled, “Bored No More: A Children's Book about Creativity.”

Bear Facts & PicturesImagine reading a fact-filled book that appeals to any child who loves animals. In "Bear Facts & Pictures" you will get a captivating guide that is filled with stunning photographs and information regarding this often misunderstood animal.

Each chapter contains a photograph with a caption and detailed facts about the bear. Your child will learn important things about a bears's social habits, habitat, hibernation, and why it likes to eat a variety of foods.

These pictures come from professional stock photography sites. That means they are crisp-clear on both the black & white Kindle and the full color Kindle.

Daffodil Dissection with Guide & PhotosWho doesn’t like to take things apart and see how they work? Here is a guide including photos of each step to dissect a daffodil. You do not need to use your best or freshest blooms for this exercise. Daffodils past their prime work fine and those from faded bouquets or show “leftovers” are perfect. This is geared towards a classroom environment, but can also be conducted at home. The first. “Inner Secrets Revealed”, has beautiful color photos along with an overview of each step. The second, “Daffodil Biology Lab Text”, is a detail document with each dissection step fully described. You may want to combine these dissection guides with copies of the Daffodil Botany Drawings available in the Youth section.

Golden Book of Chemistry ExperimentsThe Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments was a children's chemistry book written in the 1960s by Robert Brent and illustrated by Harry Lazarus and published by Western Publishing in their Golden Books series.

10-Book Storytime Bundle Sale ends in 3 days! Less than $2.00 per book!As you and your little one settle in for story time, whimsical illustrations bring each book to life in a whirlwind of vibrant colors, loveable characters, and gusts of actual wind. Their engaging stories unfold in simple sentences designed to instill a love of reading in children aged 4–8.Bundle Contents

Digger and Lew

Hens Don't Crow!

How to Catch a Falling Star

If the Wind Changes

Josh and the Whoo Whoo

Listen Up, Pup!

Little Chick and the Secret of Sleep

My Friend the Weather Monster

The Polar Bear Paddle

The Wishing Stone

Children's Storytime 10-Book BundleSale ends in 2 days! Less than $2.00 per book!This collection of original children's tales stirs the imaginations of little ones while helping them master important reading skills. The stories—which are written at a grade 1–2 reading level—immerse readers in whimsical worlds brought to life by colorful illustrations. Approximate age group: 4–8Contents

Brian the Smelly Bear

Brown Paper Bear

I'm Not Scared

It Takes Two to Twit T'woo

Little Rabbit

Nanooka's Magical Garden

Roble's Rain Dance

Shh! Don't Wake the Baby!

Snow Bear

The Beast Beneath the Bed

J. R. R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit 4-Book Boxed Set Give the gift of grand adventure with this boxed collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's beloved Lord of the Rings series and its prequel, The Hobbit. Appropriate for fans of all ages, the books have been delighting readers since their debut in the 1930s and '50s. Relive—or experience for the first time—the magic of the epic adventures undertaken by those unlikely heroes, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, who play integral roles in restoring peace to Middle Earth as it's in the midst of a life-or-death struggle between forces of good and evil. Set Contents

Here are some of the reasons you might need LEARNZILLA: - Your children need help with their homework and you need fast, FREE, and accessible learning resources to help build their skills...- You want to keep the kids engaged learning during the summer months to help them retain and build on what they learned during the school year. But it is summer, so you want the learning to be fun…- The report card is in and it wasn’t quite what you had expected. You are starting to wonder if your child is keeping up in school but money is tight so a tutor is out of the question. Panic starts to set in... - Your children are curious about the wonderful world around them and you would like to help them learn more but you don’t know where to start…- You are sick and tired of the kids watching TV and gaming. You have had enough and want them to spend some of their screen time doing something productive such as building their skills and learning new things…

Reading comprehension through structured text conversationsLearn about the structured text conversation as the effective and ideal way to teach and learn true reading comprehension. Being able to read is not the same as automatically comprehending what is being read. Teaching reading comprehension is something different from teaching the ability to decode words and sentences. Many students, even in the higher classes just before high school, need to improve their reading comprehension skills to succeed in both school and life. This book will show you how.This book will also:

Discuss and show you the difference between reading and reading comprehension.

Explain the concept of reading comprehension and how this is connected to learning and teaching reading comprehension.

Introduce and explain the intricacies of two main approaches to the structured text conversation.

Take you through 2 real-life examples of a structured text conversation using both approaches found in this book.

Learn Spanish With Humpty 1: Meeting People (Conociendo gente) (Bilingual Illustrated Books for Kids of All Ages - English/Spanish)The bilingual LEARN SPANISH WITH HUMPTY illustrated book series is ideal for children of all ages. Written in English and Spanish, it uses very simple vocabulary, very short sentences, and very simplified grammar to increase language comprehension and ease reading practice.

In MEETING PEOPLE (Conociendo gente) Humpty Dumpty finds a magic lamp with an incredible genie that takes him in a wondrous trip around the world, in which they both meet people and new friends.

WHAT THIS BOOK TEACHES THE READER: Fun and exciting, this story teaches the reader basic Spanish conversation when meeting people and making friends. It includes different greetings (pleased to meet you, nice meeting you, the pleasure is mine, etc.) as well as basic questions and answers.

Born out of one mom's struggle to find order and peace, reading this book is like having a coffee with someone that's "been there, done that." Plan to Be Flexible's focus on "rhythms" instead of a rigid schedule testifies to how free-form learning (and the realities of daily life) can happily co-exist within the framework of a goal-oriented plan.

Bored kids? Sick child who won’t rest? Whining children when the rain just won’t quit? A sudden sleep over? Called upon to lead the troop this week? Need a project the whole classroom can do? This book hands is the answer to what to do when there’s nothing to do. It’s loaded with easy crafts with impressive results that any child can handle with minimal help. In fact the less help-- the better! Adults will also find interesting projects here.

Memorize 50 States Geography: On My Way Across The United StatesThis picture book is part of a larger differentiated lesson based on the theory of Multiple Intelligences. A song, meaningful gestures, and creative visuals are used to help students build schema associated with geography and to create lasting associations which will linger long after the story fades. On My Way Across the United States is a picture book designed to both entertain and teach the geography of The United States. Burk the Turkey wants to be the nation's official bird, so he takes a whimsical journey across The United States. Each person he meets and place he visits helps him learn geography. Scrapbooking techniques and modeling clay were used in the creation of this book.

There are some great older, ﻿classic ﻿resources for free - and the Internet Archive and the Open Library are both a treasure trove of educational materials. Here's a small sampling.

What To Draw & How To Draw ItThis classic book provides a wonderful guide for drawing designs and objects such as buildings, toys, landscapes, animals and people. Click the links below for a PDF version or to read online.Download a PDF of this bookRead this book online

Handbook of Nature-StudyA matchless handbook for decades, this classic work has been the natural history bible for countless teachers and others who seek information about their environment. Written originally for those elementary school teachers who knew little of common plants and animals, and even less about the earth beneath their feet and the skies overhead, this book is for the most part as valid and helpful today as it was when first written in 1911. This is 968 pages on topics including: animals, plants, earth & sky, Download a PDF of this bookDownload a PDF of the teacher's bookRead this book onlineRead the teacher's book online

McGuffey's Eclectic Reading SeriesOut-of-print for over 125 years, the original McGuffey's Eclectic Readers are considered educational classics. These books are world renowned for their teaching of reading through the integration of faith with learning.

First-Lessons in Arithmetic, Jones Bros., 1878. This math ﻿book ﻿will provide home school parents and public school teachers a incomparable tool from the past to help their students master the fundamentals of arithmetic. Read OnlineDownload PDF

Modern HomeschoolingIt’s time to take another look at homeschooling. Homeschooling today allows for children to not only reach levels that their traditionally schooled counterparts are reaching, but to exceed them, all while enjoying more family time and a lifestyle enriched with opportunities that previous generations could only dream about. The new face of homeschooling offers travel, sports, and the ability to take your passions to the next level. If you think homeschooling means pouring over books at the kitchen table you are in for a surprise! From traditional curriculum to online schooling to early university to unschooling, homeschooling has something for everyone. Would you like to travel the world? Interested in allowing your children the opportunity to truly explore their potential in a non-school related activity? Do your children have exceptional needs that you can better accommodate at home? Do you think they would thrive if they could be accelerated and maybe even move onto higher learning at a younger age? Are you interested in more quality family time? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you will benefit from reading this book.